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Jackson.
Warren
Royal's Booming Bobbleheads.com Banks Equity Investment
from Scott Day's Digimedia + .ME's Nataša Djukanović
is Featured in the Financial Times
Warren
Royal,who
was featured in our December 2008 Cover
Story, made one of the best
investments in his life when he acquired Bobbleheads.com
for $30,000 in the spring of 2008. Using
that category defining domain name as his
foundation, Royal went on to build
Bobbleheads.com into the world's premier
source for collectible bobblehead
products.
Warren's
success has not gone unnoticed. Today it was
announced that Digimedia,
the new media powerhouse co-founded by legendary
domainer Scott Day, has made an equity
investment in Royal Bobbles LLC, the
company Royal founded to own and operate
Bobbleheads.com. Digimedia
owns some of
the best generic domain names on the internet, including
Recipes.com, Chairs.com and Decorations.com. They have been steadily
building profitable businesses on their domains
with Jerky.com
and FantasyFootball.combeing
prime examples.
Royal
said, “When we decided that it was time to find an equity partner to join us in growing our
business to the next level, there was no
Warren
Royal, Founder
Bobbleheads.com
question that Digimedia was the
best possible partner we could hope for. We recognized right away that their remarkable experience,
technology and business acumen would bring powerful benefits to our
company and we are very proud to become their
partners."
Rick
Schwartz bobblehead
Ron
Jackson bobblehead
Bobbleheads.com
products are currently being sold in
museums, gift shops, catalogs, and
online storesnationwide.
The company also is one of the top
sources of custom bobble heads,
producing thousands of custom orders
each year for consumers worldwide.
Veteran T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference attendees will remember that
Bobbleheads.com produced custom
bobbleheads of industry figures Rick
Schwartz and Ron Jackson that
Royal gave to T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York
attendees in 2008
(Schwartz) and 2009
(Jackson).
Digimedia president
Jay Chapman said, ”We felt that the partnership represented a powerful opportunity.
Bobbleheads.com’s progress is remarkable, especially in such a short period of
time. It was clear that the leadership,
direction and vision of the company is very
compatible with our own. We are excited about the synergies between our two companies in
providing value and satisfaction to customers.”
One other
note today - congratulations are in order
for Nataša Djukanović, the
Director of International Sales for the .ME
Registry. Nataša was
profiled in one of the mainstream business
world's premier publications - The
Financial Times Monday (Nov. 15).
In the
article (a free registration
is required to read FT articles) Nataša
described what her work with .ME entails
and what her daily schedule is like.
She said that
all five .ME Registry employees had
just returned to their home base in Podgorica,
Montenegro after being away for a
month visiting business partners and
attending conferences around the world.
Nataša said the travel is necessary to
let people know about .ME because the
extension is a "new kid" on the
domain block.
She told FT
that even though domains haven't been
around that long, .com has become
the traditional choice so she has to help
educate people about alternatives like
.ME. Nataša said, "Everybody would automatically go for a .com domain, but names like
VoteFor.me or Join.me are more memorable."
Nataša
Djukanović
Director International Sales, .ME Registry
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